Watch as Alpha Software President and Co-founder Selwyn Rabins deconstructs a complete Web
and Mobile application system:
It’s the ultimate overview of Alpha Anywhere capabilities and development life cycle.
At Alpha DevCon 2018, we're offering a limited number of complimentary, 30-minute face-to-face meetings with an Alpha Anywhere engineer. Learn more.
Alpha Anywhere Engineering Panel
A freeform Q&A session with the team that designed and developed Alpha Anywhere.
Moderator: Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software
Panelists: Dan Bricklin, CTO; Cian Chambliss, Sr. Programmer; Kurt Rayner, VP/R&D; Lenny Forziati, VP/Internet Products & Technical Services; Bob Moore, VP/Mobility; Terry Smith, Software Engineer
Executive Panel: The Future of Mobile in Business
A panel discussion of some of the hottest topics in app development and IT today -- machine learning, artifical intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, development speed, Mobile Centers of Excellence, and more -- with some of the top executives attending the conference this year.
Moderator: Morris Porter, Vice President/Sales
| Wednesday | ||
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| 8:00 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 AM | Welcome (Presented by Richard Rabins, CEO, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 9:15 AM | Deconstructing a Web and Mobile App (Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 10:00 AM | What's New In Alpha Anywhere (Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 10:45 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | Executive Panel (Moderated by Morris Porter, VP/Sales, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| noon | Lunch | |
| Track 1: Speeding Development and Deployment of Sophisticated Business Apps | Track 2: Empowering Citizen Developers to Build Mobile/Web Apps | |
| 1:00 PM | Technical Session: Using Node .JS with Alpha Anywhere - Using Node .JS in your Ajax callbacks | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 2:00 PM | Technical Session: Source Control - Exploring Alpha Anywhere's built-in GITHub integration and how it can help with versioning and working with teams | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 2:45 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM | Technical Session: API Publishing - Publishing APIs with Alpha Anywhere | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 4:00 PM | Technical Session: API Consumption - Using the Swagger, OAS and API Explorer to easily integrate with 3rd party APIs | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 5:00 PM | Break | |
| 6:00 PM | Cocktail Reception | |
| Thursday | ||
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| 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Technical Session: Lightning Fast Deployments and Redeployments - How to use Alpha Launch Instant Update and the PhoneGap shell to save time when rolling out new apps and updates | Customer Case Study: Using Alpha Media Services for Promoting SaaS Businesses (Presented by Dave McCormick, Alpha Software, and Ian Brower and Nick Brower (Ogilvy-Mather Cleo Winners) |
| 10:00 AM | Technical Session: Stylizing Applications - New Out of the Box Templates and How to Use Them | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 10:45 AM | Break | |
| Track 1: Building Sophisticated Offline Mobile Apps and Mobile Optimized Forms | Track 2: Empowering Less Experienced (Citizen) Developers to Excel at Building Mobile Apps (Combating Shadow IT) | |
| 11:00 AM | Technical Session: Web Apps - How to build and deploy standalone web applications and web applications that augment mobile applications. A review of techniques and available resources | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| 11:30 AM | Technical Session: IIS Publishing - The hassle-free way to deploy on IIS | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| noon | Technical Session: Debugging - The methods and tools used for debugging any kind of app | Customer Case Study: TBD (Presented by: TBD) |
| noon PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Engineering Panel/Q&A: A freeform Q&A session with the Alpha Software Engineers (Panelists from Alpha Software Engineering Team: Selwyn Rabins, Dan Bricklin, Kurt Rayner, Cian Chambliss, Lenny Forziati, Bob Moore, Terry Smith) | |
| 2:00 PM | Using TransForm with Alpha Anywhere: A review of the built-in integrations that allow you to simply connect TransForm accounts to your Alpha Anywhere environment (Presented by Dan Bricklin, CTO, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 2:45 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM | Alpha Anywhere Roadmap (Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 4:00 PM | App Teardown: Reverse engineering of a complex, highly designed Alpha Anywhere (Presented by Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software Corporation) |
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| 4:45 PM | Closing Session (Richard Rabins, CEO; Selwyn Rabins, President; Dan Bricklin, CTO, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 5:00 PM | Evening Free - Get Ready for Training! | |
| Friday - Post-Conference Training | ||
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| 8:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| AM: Building | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | Q&A on Thursday's App Teardown (Selwyn Rabins, President, Alpha Software Corporation) | |
| 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Building and Deploying Web Apps Get up to speed with building and deploying web applications. You'll see what it takes to build enterprise-class applications with excellent user experiences; then deploying, updating and managing them quickly -- all using a real application. |
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| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| PM: Deploying | ||
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Building and Deploying Mobile Apps Get up to speed with building and deploying mobile apps. You'll see what it takes to build offline-capable, enterprise-class applications using best practices, including deployments and updates. |
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*sessions subject to change as schedule evolves
